Andy,

Is this the kind of thing you want to do?

loObject = CREATEOBJECT( "Excel.Application")
loObject.Visible = .T.

_Screen.Visible = .F.
DO WHILE loObject.Visible
ENDDO

_Screen.Visible = .T.

Mace

>Hello all,
>I am having an interesting problem with COM. While in VFP 7.0 I can select the data I need to display in Excel, copy the data to the excel format, I can open Excel and load the spread sheet into Excel. I can even make Excel appear in full screen. However, my problem is that I have not been able to make Excel the “Active application” and make VFP hide in the back ground while running Windows 2000 professional.
>
>Thank you for your help,
>
>Andy Eggers